{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":39918,"auction_id":61,"set_id":89,"lot_number":"17","artist":"Allain Mallet","title":"Les Isles Philippines","starting_price":80000,"signed_dated":"dated 1682","medium":"hand-colored copper engraving Decriptionde l'Univers, Alain Manesson Mallet, Paris","size":"5 1/2” x 4” (13 cm x 10 cm) 5 1/2” x 4” (13 cm x 10 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Mapmaking and chart trade reached its zenith in the 1600s with the advent of copper plate engraving, lettering, printing, layout and hand coloring of the atlases of Jodocus Hondius (1613) — whose “Philippinae Insulae” from the first French edition of Petrus Bertius’ Tabularum was sold in Leon Gallery in December 2015; Willem Blaeu (1838) — a surveyor, globe maker, publisher, and appointed mapmaker of the Verenigde Oost Indische Compagnie; F. De la Wit (1662) — a Dutch publisher who produced maps with elaborate borders showing vignette plans of cities, figures in traditional wear, and small rendering of fish, animals and flying fish, among others; Johann Baptist Homann (1688); Robert Morden (1688); and Nicolaus Vischer (1690).\nThe magnificent works of European cartographers, publishers, engravers, and printers shed light on the cultures and  costumes of indigenous Filipinos and Southeast Asians.  Since the publication of Sanson d’ Abbeville’s Les Isles Philippine,  1652, mapmaking steadily improved to depict with astonishing exactitude the contours of the major islands in the Philippine archipelago, admirably spelling out place names.  Philippine maps drawn in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were,  on the other hand, oddly distorted due primarily to inadequate instruments and limited scientific information.  Their  embellishments were confined to the title cartouche for each map.  They were plain, neat in appearance, and delightfully  pleasant to the eye.\n \nThis map from 1682 is an extraordinary piece of work consisting of two separate images.  The map proper has a plain border  and is designed with details such as Manila Galleons emerging from smoke; instead of a cartouche, the half shell of a giant  clam bears the name “Les Isles Philippine 1682”.  The use of sea creatures in natural or idealized forms for maps during the era  is considerable, and the shell was extensively employed for these purposes in the later Renascence.\nParagua (Palawan) is narrower than what the earlier maps of the century, such as that of Hondius, depict.  The second  section features a depiction of Manila Bay with galleons with a narrow depiction of what is now called the Bataan peninsula  at left.  There is a very European looking prospect or vista of the turreted skyline of the walled city of Manila, which would  be no different from the “View of Orleans” or the “View of Rouen” or the “View of Paris” from John Speed’s “A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World” (1638), the first world atlas produced by an Englishman.  A red ribbon bears the name  “Manille”.  The ribbon bearing a label has a long history.  Those of the antique are simple, often terminating in a ball or acorn  like knob; the Middle Ages, particularly the Gothic, made them curled and quaint; in the Renascence they are developed  in various free and elegant styles, often divided at the ends like a pennant.  And the ribbon bears virtually all the characteristics  of those eras. The ribbon is almost peculiarly crinkled in the ends, which are split in two, but it is not without a certain  decorative charm.","lot_group":"MAPS","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Les Isles Philippines</strong><br /><em>Allain Mallet</em><br />Paris, 1682<br />hand-colored copper engraving<br />Decriptionde l'Univers, Alain Manesson Mallet, Paris <br />5 1/2&rdquo; x 4&rdquo; (13 cm x 10 cm)<br />5 1/2&rdquo; x 4&rdquo; (13 cm x 10 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":130000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":130000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":151840,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":38395,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/61/89/lot/17.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":38412,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/61/89/lot/17c.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":38405,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/61/89/lot/17b.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":38399,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/61/89/lot/17a.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"increment":[70000,80000,90000,100000,110000,120000,130000,140000,150000,160000,170000,180000,190000,200000,220000,240000,260000,280000,300000,320000,340000,360000,380000,400000,450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":16,"next":18,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}